Rayen Quiroga-Martinez

Studied Economics at the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Licenciada en Economia, l984; summa cum laude). Received the Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies. Got a Masters in Economics (MA in Economics, Rutgers University, 1987) during which she became aware of the limits of this discipline in explaining key human problems and started reading transdisciplinary authors. In 1987 read the first paper by Herman Daly and started to work with the Santiago based ecological economics group lead by Manfred Max Neef.

Has worked as a professor and researcher in the fields of economic development, gender and ecological economics. Has written and published in scientific journals and the mass media. Author of three books, the latest "Globalization and Unsustainability: the Case of Chile from an Ecological Economics Perspective" (co-authored with Saar van Hawermeiren).

Currently is Director of the School of Economics, Universidad Bolivariana (Santiago, Chile), where she designed the undergraduate program in Economics (incorporating core-courses in ecological economics) as well as graduate courses in human-scale development, ecological economics,human development, etc.

Also works as a lecturer and workshop facilitators in the fields of economic development, alternative development, ecological economics, human-scale development, etc.

Co-funder and Executive Director of the Sociedad Chilena de Economía Ecologica (founded May, 1995).

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